An antibiotic with a wide range of activity, used in many medicinal preparations.
〔医〕短杆菌肽
This antibiotic is obtained from the bacterium Bacillus brevis
Example sentencesExamples
In fact, gramicidin is one of the first known antibiotics.
Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
These interesting properties have made gramicidin an appropriate model for studying solvent effects on the structural changes of peptides and proteins.
Definition of gramicidin in US English:
gramicidin
nounˌɡraməˈsīdn
Medicine
An antibiotic with a wide range of activity, used in many medicinal preparations.
〔医〕短杆菌肽
This antibiotic is obtained from the bacterium Bacillus brevis
Example sentencesExamples
In fact, gramicidin is one of the first known antibiotics.
Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
These interesting properties have made gramicidin an appropriate model for studying solvent effects on the structural changes of peptides and proteins.